Myles Russell

'that sofa has 6 fingers 🫨'

Cartoon worm, man accuses women of being “anti-Car “…

I don’t hate cars. Like most North American males I was raised to think cars are cool, and as a design nerd, few objects are more eye-catching.

I hate surrendering our streets, our cities and our lives to them.

Car dependence isn’t freedom.

Great cartoon by @robcowan.bsky.social #CarDependency

Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space

“Safety and space at risk as SUVs reach 30% of car market in English cities, researchers warn. Campaigners call for Paris-style parking charges amid fears big vehicles are taking up excessive public space.”

Cities need smart strategies to manage vehicle size. NOT bigger parking space requirements.

While we were in Italy my wife kept remarking on all the small vehicles, both personal and commercial. One thing I stressed was that it's not that people in Italy necessarily like or want small cars, but rather smaller vehicles are the result of a deliberate set of policy and design choices.

View from the front of a cargo bike riding on a new two-way protected bikeway. Ahead, three children, all wearing helmets, ride bikes — one in a yellow sweatshirt, one in black, and one in a patterned dress. A pedestrian walks on the sidewalk to the left. Apartment buildings line one side of the street, and parked cars line the other. Trees and bright morning sunlight frame the neighborhood scene.

People act like getting kids places without a car is Herculean. I biked three (one not mine) to the Kingfield Farmers Market, 95% on bikeways. No car seats, no stress, just laughs. The challenge isn’t moving kids, it’s redesigning cities to work for people instead of cars. #StreetsForPeople

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I love it! We are doing the same thing here in St. John's with tax data we purchased. But we are attempting to integrate infrastructure costs in small areas and summing the total resi and commercial tax revenue to compare against. We are currently testing our method on a sample area ☺️

Yup it's all pretty wild when you look at the math. Are you using total length of road and size of roads in each statistical DA from stats Canada?

You’re much closer to becoming disabled or homeless than you are to becoming rich and wealthy.

It’s not a moral failing. It’s not something you can “try harder” your way out of.

We need robust social supports & safety nets to ensure everyone is properly cared for.

People have for my signs* 😅 maybe I shouldn't post after 14 hours of campaign work in a single day 😶‍🌫️

I'm so humbled by the support and joy little have for my stand ☺️

My friends and I put in all the signs 💪. Many of them right from the back of my car! thanks to everyone who reached out to get a sign 🙏💖 most of the signs are by request and are all compliant with the regs with what I've installed!

Bold move. Let's see how it plays out. Ohhhh struck out on first base! Certainly not going to be the play of the day.

Almost every developer I work with does not like building suburban houses. It's a long ROI thus, they're not great for business. We all feel the housing affordability crisis.

But for some reason, many municipalities refuse to change their ways to allow smaller, safer streets and affordable housing

Myles smiling while holding an orange 8kg sledge hammer over his shoulder crouched in front of a 'Hollywood-esque' sign of his last name R U S S E L L

Come see the wild attraction that is the RUSSELL sign on Columbus drive. All of my signs are legally placed and meet the election guidelines 😉

Voterussell.ca

Myles Russell Councillor At-Large!

Election on Oct 2nd

Yeah same with mental health and addictions. We can't build or maintain any health systems as it isn't in the jurisdiction. Best we can do is build supportive housing systems and work with the GOV. We could install needle drop offs and have a health group empty them.

The St. John's act is ass 🫠

It couldn't hurt. Sadly traffic enforcement is a provincial jurisdiction under RNC. Traffic should be under city control, but that'd require an updated St. John's act 🙃

The number of times I snapped my fingers and said 'hell-yeah' in this video was all of the video 😅

Jas and Pat nail it again!

Stop signs and speed limits are regularly ignored by drivers. Bike whatever way you feel safe.

The only way to have safer streets is to design for traffic calming.

Too many get elected and then disappear.

You gotta love the towers of parking signs with more rules than a hockey game that are impossible to read or understand from inside a car.

Not many super egregious ones where I'm from share.google/images/7ZUeF...

Bad ones in Toronto though. I think I saw like 5 signs to a single post 😅

People should be unhappy that the city's design forces everyone to drive lest they sacrifice their time.

It need not be this way. We can provide 100km of safe all ages paths for cycling, scooting, etc without much effort or money.

We deserve a people-first city #stjohns

I can help with that

It's so easy and so cheap to make safe spaces using the ample car space we have.

We sacrificed so much of our city to the least efficient way to get around.

I've got a vid talking about road conversions 😊 vt.tiktok.com/ZSAXmkMR4/ or www.instagram.com/reel/DNsq20d...

View of the central Copenhagen pedestrian street where it widens into a gorgeous square with fountain

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

@johnriche.bsky.social I saw your commend on the NordSpace first launch and laughed out loud

#stjohns is stuck using the wave. All I saw in Toronto and Montreal were post and ring and inverted U.

I felt this statement: (this sports metaphor is very unnatural for me, I am not a sports person!). I'm also not a sports person 😅

Fantastic article Reece!

IMO Toronto needs like half the Streets it has downtown. I spent a full day confidently biking all over Montreal but I'm far more skeptical of biking in Toronto. So many assholes clearly speeding in cars everywhere.

Also every tram should be in a dedicated lane and have signal priority.

Next, water Street? #yyt Streets aren't noisy. Cars are noisy. Nothing ruins a pedestrian area like a loud engine showing off to no-one who cares just outside. The more pedestrian areas the better.

It's so blue in the Rogers Centre... I mean Sky Dome! #mcrtoronto

Dunno wtf this is about. As a Newfoundlander the choice is fish but honestly, I'd prefer chicken 😅 #MCR

Concerts. I normally don't do them but as an elder millennial, MCR has a spot in mine and my partner's heart 🖤